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Marvel Comics to release Pro-Homosexual Comic Book.
CNN.com ^
| December 9, 2002
| staff
Posted on 12/09/2002 2:03:56 PM PST by TheBattman
Excerpt: NEW YORK (CNN) -- Marvel Comics plans to break new ground in the comic book industry by introducing the first openly gay title character in a comic book.
The character will appear in a revival of the 1950s title, "The Rawhide Kid." Marvel expects a February debut.
The new series pairs the original artist, John Severin, now 86, with Ron Zimmerman, a writer for the "Howard Stern Show."
The Rawhide Kid has been a Marvel character since the 1950s both as a main and a secondary character. However, it was not until Zimmerman approached Marvel with his idea of a homosexual Rawhide Kid that sexuality was mentioned in the discussion of the character.
Although shy with girls, the original Rawhide Kid was not intended to be gay. The new version uses double entendres and euphemisms to reveal his homosexuality without saying anything explicitly. Based on a blurb on Marvel's Web site, the tone may be campy.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aceandgary; book; butchdykeman; comic; comicbook; comicbooks; comics; cowpoker; gay; hesapoof; homosexual; homosexualagenda; marvel; marvelcomics; prisoners; rawhidekid; tonigay
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To: 1bigdictator
You missed the obvious - the Rawhide Kid and his sidekick Barebacker...
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posted on
12/09/2002 2:16:09 PM PST
by
dirtboy
To: BikerNYC
Capitalism, pure and simple. Let's see if anyone buys it. Market morality. If people buy it, it must be A-OK!
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posted on
12/09/2002 2:16:59 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: TheBattman
IN the 50s and 60s kids wanted to be like Daniel Boone. They dressed like him…wore a coon skin cap…they emulated his life!
Are there any doubts this will have the same affect?
That is why Marvel is doing it.
Kids that fall into this trap will be known as "The Rump Rangers!"
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posted on
12/09/2002 2:17:01 PM PST
by
South40
To: MotleyGirl70
LOL! We watch too much TV!
To: dirtboy
LOL
To: MCH
What kind of outfit will this guy run around in? No doubt @ssless chaps, to fit the evident weththern theme. "Hey Kid -- your saddle horn's in the wrong spot!"
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posted on
12/09/2002 2:18:34 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: Larry Lucido
:) I know the one dude's name is Ace, but I can't think of the other one's name.
To: MotleyGirl70
gary
To: TheBattman
ALL of the Marvel Comics group has had a subliminal bias in favor of homosexuality in the story lines.
To: TheBattman
Thank G_d they didn't screw with MY character!!
To: AxelPaulsenJr
LOL! Yep, that's it; Gary and Ace riding on their rocket ship shaped like a penis.
To: TheBattman
Well, I dunno...all those leather-clad guys with whips, lonely, out under the stars with all those cows, singing romantic songs...gay is the least of their problems...
To: TheBattman
What's his horse's name...
Johnson?
To: MotleyGirl70
Their car also was shaped like a penis.
To: CougarGA7
To: TheBattman
Hah! This'll be nothing more than a rehash of the final scenes from "Blazing Saddles"!
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posted on
12/09/2002 2:24:01 PM PST
by
SGCOS
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To: AxelPaulsenJr
LOL!
To: MotleyGirl70
To: SGCOS
"You the black sheriff? But I thought he was hung."
"I wasn't but I is..."
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